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nearly all the poplars, and the alders. In 

 another place might be a thicket of the different 

 varieties of hawthorn, with a few of the fine 

 large-fruited foreign kinds of Crataegus planted 

 in striking situations. In short, there are no 

 limits to the numerous and beautiful scenes that 

 might be laid out by a woman of cultivated 

 mind, who possessed fancy and taste, combined 

 with a very slight knowledge of trees; and I 

 think I may safely add that I do not know a 

 more delightful occupation than this kind of 

 landscape-gardening. It is landscape-painting, 

 but on the noblest and boldest scale ; and it is 

 a source of constant enjoyment, from the daily 

 improvement that it displays. What a differ- 

 ence it makes in the pleasure we have in return- 

 ing home, if we have something to visit that we 

 know has been improving in our absence ! We 

 regard the trees and shrubs we have planted, 

 and the scenes we have laid out, with almost a 

 parental fondness ; and a new and daily increas- 

 ing interest is given to life. I would, therefore, 

 most earnestly entreat my readers to study trees 

 and shrubs; and I do assure them that they 

 will find themselves amply repaid, not only by 

 the pleasure they will have in landscap-e-garden- 

 ing, but in the additional enjoyment their ac- 

 cession of knowledge will give to every country 

 walk and ride that they take. 



There is, however, one great drawback to the 

 pleasure that may be anticipated from planting 

 an arboretum, or even an illustration of any 

 particular order or genus ; and this is, the very 

 great difficulty that exists in procuring plants 

 true to their names. Nurserymen put down a 



